General
The application of psychological science to understanding and treating mental disorders.
What is abnormal psychology?
The co-occurence of two or more disorders in the same person at the same time, as when a person suffers from both depression and alcoholism.
What is the comorbidity?
This affects roughly 8% of the population, sadly the majority of which are survivors of abuse.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Schizophrenia in Greek.
What is split mind?
The Canadian Mental Health Survey found that roughly this percentage of people would experience a mental/substance disorder in their lifetimes.
What is 33%?
Refers to a disgrace or defect that indicates that person belongs to a culturally devalued social group.
What is stigma?
People with this disorder may find that they occasionally check stove burners, count steps, clean homes and offices past the point of normal standards, and wash their hands multiple times in order for it to be "clean."
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
Psychological disorders in which the person’s mood negatively influences his or her physical, perceptual, social, and cognitive processes.
What are mood disorders?
Apathy, loss of sense of time, limited speech, etc, are all examples of this type of symptom.
What are negative?
To be considered a disorder, the condition must be ongoing, cause distress, and this.
What is deviant?
The classification system, developed by the American Psychiatric Association, used to describe abnormal behaviors; it is often abbreviated as DSM5 TR.
What is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
A type of anxiety disorder characterized by intense, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia?
Characterized by mood swings alternating between periods of major depression and mania, the two poles of emotions.
What is bipolar disorder?
The shifting from one subject to another, without following any one line of thought to conclusion
What is derailment?
Cultural expectations, homelessness, poverty, and stigma are all this.
What are social/cultural influences?
A major criticism of the DSM.
What are vague criteria open to interpretation?
Fear or discomfort that arises abruptly and peaks in 10 minutes or less.
What is a panic attack?
A state of helplessness or resignation in which people or animals learn that escape from something painful is impossible and depression results.
What is Learned Helplessness?
Expecting a reward for sacrifice.
What is the Heaven's Reward Fallacy?
The extent to which it causes distress (e.g., pain and suffering) and dysfunction (impairment in one or more important areas of functioning) to the individual.
What is maladaptive?
The diagnosis of this disorder has quadrupled in the last 20 years.
What is ADHD?
A common chronic problem that affects twice as many women as men and leads to considerable impairment.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
A condition characterized by mild, but chronic, depressive symptoms that last for at least two years. Mr. Rioux struggles to pronounce it.
What is dysthymia ?
Always assuming responsibility for actions and consequences.
What is personalization?